Tehran will not be engaging in talks with the US as long as Washington breaches an interim deal signed in June, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi said on Sunday. Araqchi also stated that Iran and the US are not engaged in talks, adding that messages are being exchanged via intermediaries.
Araqchi repeated Iran's position that an agreement on the Strait of Hormuz between Tehran and Muscat was in the "final stages" but would not reopen the strategic waterway.
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He also said the agreement would set out the new shipping lanes to be used once the US fulfills other conditions and the strait is reopened to traffic.
Agreement between Iran and Oman over the strait, which separates the two countries, is seen as vital to a wider deal to end the war, which began with US and Israeli attacks on Iran on February 28 and led to Tehran establishing a chokehold over the major energy export route.
